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“I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:

Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.

This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Reality, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“الميزولوجيا، أي كره العلم، تنشأ عادة من نقص في المعارف العلمية يُخالطه قدر من الادعاء.”
― إيمانويل كنط, التفكير الفلسفي

“ولا تحسبوا رقصى طربا فالطير يرقص مذبوحا من الألم”
― أبو نواس

“أنا شاب لكن عمري ألف عام
وحيد لكن بين ضلوعي زحام
خايف و لكن خوفي مني أنا
أخرس و لكن قلبي مليان كلام

عجبي !!”
― صلاح جاهين

“الاستحمار هو طلسمة الذهن وإلهاؤه عن الدراية الإنسانية والدراية الاجتماعية و إشغاله بحق أو بباطل، مقدس أو غير مقدس.”
― علي شريعتي, النباهة والاستحمار

“قال لها: بساطتك مُلفتة جدًا في زمن مليء بالتعقيدات !”
― عفاف الشاذلي

“إن قيمة كل واحد منا على قدر ايمانه بنفسه”
― علي شريعتي, النباهة والاستحمار

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“السعادة كلها في أن يملك الرجل نفسه، والشقاوة كلها في أن تملكه نفسه.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي

“لا تلمس الحق البسيط الجلي إلا النفس البصيرة الرفيعة.
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― مي زيادة

“الإيمان بكل بساطة هو تكثيفٌ للحب. ينبغي أن تُحب أكثر، وسيتحول الحب إلى إيمان.
إن الرجل العاشق قد يحسب المرأة التي يحبها أروع امرأة على وجه الأرض، وهذا لون من الإيمان.
ومعدوم الإيمان لا يُمكنه أن يُحب؛ فهو "يُحب" هذه يومًا وتلك بعد عام؛ إن أرواح هؤلاء مُتسكعة شريدة عقيم!”
― ليو تولستوي

“Everything starts with belief. With faith.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Danny: You can be as morally righteous as you want—in a vacuum—but throw in a second entity and you gotta start acting in response to the other.”
― Angry Zodd, Danny the Last Earth Man

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch